Cpt_Farrel

That turned out so nice! Everything is looking great and it was nice to follow the build for sure! Glad I could help as well. /Anders

Someone needs to check his phone display it seems...

Sorry to hear about the Yellow 6 decals, you can have mine though as I don't plan on using them. If I change my mind I think I can get new ones anyway. :-) Nice to see this bird in blue numbers! Adds a nice touch of color! PM me regarding the 6's...

That's looking very good! I'm following this with great interest! No pressure, I'm only trying to help! BTW - something many seems to get wrong are the upper wing crosses, the smaller version as used on Black 22 and others should be placed further out on the wing, in the position shown on the right hand side of the top view instructions. /Anders

I already mentioned it in the PM but if others are interested, the questions around this aircraft and the colours of Erla aircraft read the two first posts on my blog that comes up under the "Barracuda" tag. http://theprofilepaintshop.blogspot.se/search/label/Barracudacals /Anders

That's looking great and it will be cool to see this one finished! As a third of the prop was painted white I'm very confident that the spinner was 70 as it was a factory standard. Regarding the yellow, in one of the photos it's clear that the demarcation line goes right through the rear small air intake on the cowling and I did it the same in the profile, it's possible that the intake is in the wrong place though, good drawings are hard to find! The second photo of this aircraft is not widely published but if you're interested just PM me and I'll dig it out for you. (I guess you've seen the one taken from the front of the aircraft?) / Anders

If you decide to go ahead with it, pm me if you want some pictures and a slightly different interpretation of this aircraft.

Both the AMUR set and the original kit has everything you'll need for a G-5 except the special head armour used on all 109's with pressurised cockpits. There's none available but they should be easy enough to scratch build. Nice rewview BTW, I've ordered the Erla version and I'm waiting impatiently.

That's really nice to see step by step. Interesting (and good to know) that it in my opinion looks over done in stage 3 but perfect in stage 4 once the details are painted. /Anders

Beauiful and inspiring as always! /Anders

This is my Hasegawa 1/48 Hurricane Mk I built almost OOTB. I found the build quite trouble free and a lot easier than dealing with the Italeri kit. I didn't like the line from the windscreen to the spinner as it looked to straight to me. I sanded it down some and replaced the nose bulges that had to go when I tried to fix the shape. The shape problem seems to be most visible with the De Havilland spinner that I used, I checked my second kit and with the Rotol spinner on, especially with the oil collector ring, the shape does look better. The model is painted with Vallejo and Tamiya for the black and white, Games Workshop Mithril silver and then Xtracrylix Dark Green and Dark Earth. I really liked the look of the Xtracrylix colors. I faded the dark green with Tamiya RLM Grey and the Dark Earth with Tamiya Buff. Additional weathering was done by post shading and silver pencil. I also used Tamiya Buff to simulate the light staining from the exhaust and I think it worked nicely. Decals are mainly Aviaeology but the code letters are from xtradecal. I used Italeri decals for the under wing roundels. This aircraft has been captioned differently in various publications but given the combination of markings the most likely timeframe would be the last weeks of May of early June 1940. Still a fitting aircraft to post given the date! /Anders

Yes, so it seems, I guess with a light grey backing they made sure that the stencils would always be visible and readable.

Just read the passage about the light background of the stencils, That is not the result of a repaint and a masked background, the stencils were applied as decals and these decals had light grey background which stands out as a masked RLM 76. This was standard practice at Erla before the production of the G-10 even began, it's often most clearly evident above the pilots hand hold behind the canopy.

Thanks! Yes, it's EZ-line for the wire. I'm used to stretched sprue and this seems to require a slightly different approach so I'm learning... /Anders

I finally managed to finish a model! My workbench has been packed up for over a year due to a house rebuild but since a couple of weeks I'm back in full swing. This Eduard Bf109E-4 was just about ready for paint last year but I had to wait until now to finish it. It's all painted in AK Interactive paints except for the yellow RLM 04 which is from Xtracrylix. Weathering was done with load of different techniques, I used a lot of pigments that I thought turned out a little harsch so I misted the weathering with the camouflage colors and ended up with something that I was quite happy with. Anyway, it's time to post some pics! /Anders